Why Oleksandr Usyk Should Be P4P Number 1 Over Both Terence Crawford & Naoya Inoue.

I think I'd agree with that, or the spirit of that at least. People would argue. But yeah, Usyk beating Fury would be incredible in a way that Usyk beating AJ really wasn't. Speaking for myself I thought of Usyk as a heavy favourite for that fight and had done for about a decade. I was so firmly in the Usyk to beat AJ camp that I was actually disturbed by how difficult Usyk found it second time around (loved the fight though).

AJ is doing this huge amount of p4p lifting in this argument, and it doesn't make much sense to me - but Fury, for all the opposite reasons, I think yeah, it makes Usyk a pretty clean argument. But also massively powerful for Usyk would be beating anothrt ranked heavy, a top five guy, someone like Wilder or Chang. I don't think he needs Fury to become the p4p #1, a wicked performance against one of these would throw him right into the mix. Worth pointing out that it is very likely that Doubois and AJ - fighters that are made for him - will have been Usyk's only opponents for 3 years by the time he gets out again. Worse, the last time he met a top-ten fighter in any division that wasn't AJ was 2018.

 

And let's get another thing straight here right quick

Usyk didn't turn pro until 2 months before his 27th birthday

Inoue and Crawford turned pro at 19 and 20 y/o respectively

That's a freaking huge percentage of his prime years left in the amateurs

But during his time spent in the amateurs, among other things, he won

Olympic gold
World Amateur gold
European gold


And he was robbed in his first Olympics against the eventual silver medalist and there would've been a very high chance of him being a 2 x Olympic gold medalist had he not been robbed

That's part of his overall CV too and it's even more evidence of his greatness and he didn't even take up the sport until he was 15 y/o

An we've not only seen him toy with and dominate giants way bigger, heavier, longer, stronger, and more powerful than him in their backyards we've seen him do it in the WSB too and some of those giants were the best SHWs in the world not bums. Fighters who are 3 x world amateur gold medalists, Olympic silver medalists, or ranked in the top 10 at that weight, a weight he had never fought at before.

The others have never done this nor even close amateur or pro. That's the definition of P4P greatness and skills

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And like I said, Usyk is fighting another murderous punching giant next and even though Spence and Fulton were world champions and Dubois is a regular champ (which would still make him a real world champion by Twink fans rules) it's a far more dangerous assignment for Usyk giving the huge size disparity and savage power Dubois possesses than Spence and Fulton were for Crawford and Inoue respectively.

Neither were of them were realistically in any danger of getting knocked out in their last fights or remotely in any danger of getting euthanized with one punch. Usyk is running a gauntlet of death. He's playing chicken on a minefield facing all these legit bangers and murderous punchers all the time. One wrong move and it's bye bye leg, bye bye face, or bye bye life. You fell me?


If Spence was way way bigger and heavier than Crawford and punched like Beterbiev and Fulton was way way bigger and heavier than Inoue and punched like Super Boots it would be a very different story and That. Is. What. I. Am. Talking. About.

 

Me: ''Officer, I would like to report a gigantic explosion

Police officer: ''Where and when did this happen, sir?''

Me: ''In CST's Usyk thread just now. I just dropped a huge bomb in it. Right besides the massive craters CST made with his bombs''

Police officer: ''Thanks, I'll get right on it''

 

AJ is at worse the 2nd best HW of this generation and he does have the best resume at HW of this generation

In chronological order

Kevin Johnson
Whyte
Martin
Wlad
Breazeale
Molina
Wlad
Takam
Parker
Povetkin
Fat Andy
Fat Andy
Pulev
Usyk
Usyk
Franklin

We all saw the problems Prince Charlie Martin caused the future of the division Jared Anderson last time out, hurting him pretty badly numerous times and taking him the distance, and Martin is one of AJ's worst wins at the world level. AJ smoked Martin


In just 71 fights in total amateur and pro he's won Olympic gold (undeserved), World Amateur silver, become a 2 x three-belt unified champion and fought

Cammarelle x 2
Majidov
Joyce
Savon
Dychko
Nistor
Zhang
Frazer Clarke
Whyte
Wallin x 2
Kuzmin
Pfeifer
Arjaoui

Usyk x 2
Wlad
Povetkin
Parker
Fat Andy x 2
Whyte
Pulev
Takam
Martin
Franklin
Kevin Johnson
Breazeale
Molina


And AJ has fought lots of punchers amateur and pro and only ever been dropped or stopped by big punchers


Yes AJ got stopped by Fat Andy in the first fight but these things happen in the HW division. Lewis got KTFO by a crack addict and Rahman. Tyson got knocked out by Douglas. Wlad got knocked out by Sanders and stopped against Purrity and Brewster. Louis against Schmeling etc.


And something was clearly not right with AJ going into that fight which was plain to see from his ring walk. But he avenged the loss in his next fight and that's a fact.